OAA Recap Week 12

Written Sunday November 11th, at 11:10 AM

The Dragons are the only OAA team left after he Wolves shockingly lost to Rockford and the Knights lost a heartbreaker to Wyandotte Roosevelt. Lake Orion will now play Detroit Cass Tech on Saturday at Troy Athens.

BIGGEST WIN OF THE NIGHT: Lake Orion 51, Macomb Dakota 35: Dragons fans finally got the Cougars to come to their place and they finally won over one of their arch rivals from the MAC. Lake Orion led 31-7 at halftime and never looked back. The Dragons did win the MAC Red crown though

HEARTBREAKING LOSS: Wyandotte Roosevelt 10, Oak Park 6: The Knights were leading 6-3 late in the game but however gave up a passing touchdown to the Bears with 91 seconds left in the game for a 10-6 lead. Oak Park could not convert on its last chance to win. This is a tough loss for the Knights and Coach Carter will be back next season.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME: Rockford 25, Clarkston 14: The Wolves had the Rams, three hours away from home and still lost. Rockford had a good game plan to stop Clarkston’s rushing attack but personally thought that Clarkston abandoned the run way too early and was not in its element especially with throwing the ball down the field. This has been a bad week for the Wolves, first the girls’ volleyball team was swept by Seaholm in the regional finals and now the football team is now done for the year.

OAA Week 13 Big games:

Lake Orion vs. Detroit Cass Tech (Saturday 1 PM) at Troy Athens: This is a rematch of a 24-21 victory by the Dragons over the Technicians in 2010. Both these teams were the last two state champions of division one (Lake Orion 2010, Detroit Cass Tech 2011) Detroit Cass Tech is also the defending state champions and has a lot of division one players. However Lake Orion is balanced on both sides of the ball. This has the makings of yet another classic yet again.

Besides Clarkston going down, a couple undefeated teams also went down as well. Stevensville Lake Shore was blown out 31-7 by Grand Rapids Christian. Also Mendon suffered a blowout loss to Muskegon Catholic Central 28-6 at home, which is alarming also Midland lost to Muskegon 49-21. The Chemics were undefeated coming into the game had a bad first half. They trailed 35-7 at half and could not recover. Another team that went down was Flint Powers losing at home to Portland 45-28, which was a shock considering that Flint Powers was the defending division five state champions.